It seems that at every turn we witness an invasion of our privacy in one form or another. While we are, unfortunately and perhaps quite deliberately, getting accustomed to hearing about violations from law enforcement and governmental agencies, it is even more disheartening to hear about private businesses that engage in trashing our Constitution, breaking down trust to a point where society becomes to degraded to support the higher levels of civility.
The website ancestry.com has been caught giving their clients DNA to police without a warrant being served.
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Not me! 🙂
I think Americans need to be better consumers when it comes to these kinds of carrots they hang out to the unsuspecting consumers!
NOTHING IS SAFE AND NO ONE MAY BE TRUETED!
the end of the 4th Amendment.
yet another reason to not trust the internet based business attempts to screw money out of people!
they get paid for it….ig you are stupid enough to give it to them
Knew that was gonna happen! SMH!
I was just telling someone not that long ago, I had considered doing this but do not trust this administration. Guess, my instincts where dead on again.
This makes me just sick.
Doesn’t matter. NOTHING that ancestry provides to LE can be used under the law.
If open crimes are matched via this data, it won’t stick. And if it does and someone is convicted *solely* based on this evidence, appeals would be forthcoming.
3 words: chain of custody
Ancestry providing it wouldn’t justify probable cause for official collection (in the absence of other evidence)
Someone….please…school me. (I am not a lawyer but this would make sense)